She was dressed in black, he was dressed in black: the marriage between Barbara Exignotis and Nino Frassica seemed to be an idea of the Addams family, a funereal irony, not to be too serious about a bond that is not always eternal because it exists Surely there is something eternal about it, just death.
It was 2018, but they had already been a couple for 10 years with an age difference of 25 years, she from 1975, he from 1950. But they are certainly not conventional types. Both actresses, even if her beginnings were in the red light, when she appeared in films with the stage name Blondie that didn’t need costume designers.
Barbara Exignotis is of Greek descent (that’s how it was spelled in the 90s), which changed into Hungarian descent twenty years later. She is now reported by her neighbors for stalking and is registered in the registry office of Cernusco sul Naviglio (Milan) and in an interview with Alessandra Arachi on September 7, 1997, she said to herself this way: “I have always been an exhibitionist. After graduating from school, I took a course in commercial art but couldn’t find a job. Then I took a hairdressing course and found the job straight away, but it wasn’t the best. Instead, I earn much better with this job, now even 1 million a week.”
He had decided to run in the local elections in Milan on the Alleanza Nazionale lists (“I don’t know anything about politics, but I agree with all of AN’s ideas about sex”). But An had different ideas about politics and nothing came of it. Things were going better with television when she came up with the idea of starting Stramisex (aired on a local network in Lombardy), a copy of Strangelove but in a porn version: “I was walking around Brianza watching erotic video advertisements with one Collected a motorhome that looked like Alberto Castagna’s.
Eventually he gets bored of the red lights and switches to theater lights. And here he meets Nino Frassica. Lots of shows together, no interviews, the search – it seems deliberate – for a cone of shadow. Until recent events (the missing cat) put her back in the spotlight and social media becomes a double-edged sword because it’s a moment to do an Instagram Live and then regret it: two weeks ago she had to opt out for ” the … “excuse unspeakable phrases” (“Couldn’t they have deported them instead of so many Jews?”), addressed to the neighbor (who was guilty of driving away her cat).
A moment of clarity blinded by a mitigating circumstance, because – his reasoning – to overcome this difficult moment, the recipe was also difficult: “I take Xanax and Prozac and drink beer.” A do-it-yourself remedy, that is not always effective.